Two-tone used to be the opposite of cool, the perfect definition of outdated – and not the nice kind of outdated. Who could have thought that two-tone would become cool again? If you would have asked me five years ago about the return of two-tone steel-and-gold watches, my answer would have been “no way, mate!” (and I would have been one among a thousand to answer that). And what if both were reunited in a single watch? Oris did it, with the Divers Sixty-Five Bi-Colour or “Bico” – and that includes the bracelet too. So what are the main trends for 2019? One one side we have two-tone watches ( even on instrument watches) and on the other side, bronze cases. Look at the array of luxury sports watches or gradient dials introduced recently. And, like or not, watchmaking cannot escape trends. They come, they go and then they come back again. The watch comes fitted on a 20mm Oris Vintage leather strap with a signed buckle.We often hear that trends are an endlessly repetitive cycle. Inside an Automatic Sellita SW-200, 26 jewels, 28,800 beats per hour. On the reverse, a polished screw-down case back with an engraved Oris shield in the center.
Sword hands with a lollipop sweeping seconds hand are again coated in light Old Radium SuperLuminova. The matte black dial has applied disc and baton indexes coated in light Old Radium SuperLuminova. A domed Sapphire crystal is AR coated allowing for excellent viewing angles under different lighting conditions. The screw-down signed crown is large enough for easy adjustment. The bronze bezel is unidirectional with a lume pip at 12 o’clock, the edges have enough ridge depth to make turning a breeze. The case is polished on its sides whilst the lug tops are brushed creating a seamless transition between the two. Unlike the original, the case size is a more contemporary 40mm and all stainless steel in construction. Unveiled in 2015 at Baselworld the Oris Divers Sixty-Five, a heritage line up capturing the essence of the original, with the use of modern materials and movements to bring it up to date. At the end of the 1960s, Oris became one of the world’s largest watch companies, producing approximately 1.2 million timepieces a year. By 1929, they had a total of six factories. The name comes from a brook at the Swiss town of Hölstein, in a short period they became the largest employer in Hölstein. Oris was founded in 1904 by two men, Paul Cattin and Georges Christian.
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